It's about time, Joe

President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned Israel that international support for its response to the Oct. 7 attack was beginning to fracture, issuing his bluntest public critique yet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the conflict.

Speaking at a closed-door fundraiser in Washington, Biden said that U.S. and European support for Israel was softening in the wake of “indiscriminate bombing.” He also said Netanyahu “has got a tough decision to make” when it comes to his own government, which the president described as the “most conservative” in Israel’s history.

  Politico

Now get out there and say it publicly.

“I think he has to change,” Biden said, but the “government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move.”

Biden suggested that any sort of long-term solution would not be feasible with Israel’s current government, pointing out that its conservative factions opposed anything “remotely approaching a two-state solution.”

Sure, just pretend Bibi is being constrained, not leading the pack. Very brave, Joe.

“It was pointed out to me — I’m being very blunt with you all — it was pointed out to me that, by Bibi, that ‘Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,’” Biden said, according to a White House provided transcript.

“I said, ‘Yeah, that’s why all these institutions were set up after World War Two to see to it that it didn’t happen again — it didn’t happen again. Don’t make the same mistakes we made at 9/11. There was no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan at 9/11. There was no reason why we had to do some of the things we did.”

Now say it in public.

For weeks, the White House had argued that the president had more leverage in influencing Netanyahu’s decision making if he publicly embraced him and reserved his critiques behind closed doors.

Bullshit. Bibi can't be manipulated. Bibi is doing exactly what he wants to do. Which is destroy Palestine.  He's going to do worse if Joe says negative things about him in public?  Give me a break.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 05:14 pm: